New online casinos in Canada that opened in the last 12 months

New online casinos in Canada can only open legally in two provinces: Ontario, where private sites have been licensed since April 2022, and Alberta, whose market opened on July 13, 2026. Seven new casino sites have joined Ontario since November 2025, and 28 have arrived in Alberta since its first day.

Each one below is checked against its province’s official list, with the date it went live and the announcement that proves it. Offshore sites calling themselves new are left out, and so are bonuses. What you get instead is the company behind each site, its exact address and what it offers, rechecked every week.

What this page covers

1. New sites by province
2. How launches are dated
3. Ontario this year
4. Alberta since July
5. Checks before joining
6. Not open yet
7. What comes next
8. Questions

The newest online casinos in Ontario and Alberta

How we date a casino launch

Neither official list says when a site arrived. The iGaming Ontario directory is a snapshot with a single date at the top, September 1, 2026 at the moment, and the Alberta iGaming Corporation register is a plain list of names and addresses. A launch therefore has to be dated from elsewhere, and three rules decide which new online casinos make this page.

• On the official list first. A site counts only once its exact address appears in the iGaming Ontario directory or on the Alberta register. An announcement of a launch to come is not enough.
• The earliest primary source for the date. The operator’s or its supplier’s own release comes first, then trade press such as Canadian Gaming Business, iGaming Business or the Covers industry desk. Affiliate sites are never used as proof, and when nobody published a day, the card shows the window instead.
• A new site, not a new owner. A brand bought by another company, or a poker room folded into another app, keeps its place in the market and does not reappear here.

From November 3, 2026, we also keep a dated copy of both lists every Tuesday and compare it with the week before, so each new name gets a first-seen date of our own. Reading the official list is also the first step of every Casiloon review: the licence check that comes before any score decides whether a site can be covered at all, which is why offshore sites never appear here, however recently they opened.

New casinos in Ontario since late 2025

Ontario’s arrivals came in a cluster: every launch we could date falls between April and September 2026. BetNova opened first, on April 9, with a casino and a sportsbook built around soccer. Fanatics Casino came last, on September 1, as a casino-only soft launch that made it the 50th active operator in the province.

Three of the seven are American names crossing the border: Fanatics, Hard Rock Bet, which calls Ontario its first international market, and PENN Entertainment’s Hollywood Casino. The others are Betinia from Soft2Bet, Miki on GiG’s platform and DAZN Bet, the betting brand of the sports streaming service. Since the directory is dated September 1, a site launched after that day may not be listed yet.

The year also had departures. Five casino sites stopped serving Ontario players, and their notices are a reminder not to leave a balance sitting for long.

If a site you use announces it is leaving, the Ontario hub sets out what happens to a balance when a site leaves Ontario, and when to ask for it back.

New casino sites in Alberta since July 13

Alberta opened with 22 registered sites on July 13, 2026, run by 15 operators according to Alberta iGaming Corporation. By November 3, its register listed 51. Of the 29 additions, 28 offer casino games; the other, PowerPlay, launched only its sportsbook.

Alberta’s new online casinos came in three waves, which is how the tab above is grouped. A handful came over the summer, Super Group moved most of its brands across in late September, and a large group arrived with the October 13 deadline. That date closed a three-month grace period for operators that had been serving Albertans without a licence: those not approved by then had to stop taking their bets. The province had estimated that about 70% of online gambling there went through such sites before regulation.

Most names will look familiar, since 23 of the 28 already run a licensed site in Ontario. Only five are new to Canada’s regulated markets altogether: PureCasino.ca from PURE Casino, which runs land-based casinos in Alberta, Vegas Club Casino, Stake, Lucky Liner and Mega Casino. A familiar name still means a separate Alberta site, with its own address and the province’s rules, starting with the 18+ age limit.

The Alberta tab has no buttons for a reason. Its sites appear here as information from the official register, while reviews, scores and links wait for the AGLC’s reply to our query about comparison sites.

Checks worth making at a newly launched casino

Read side by side, the operators’ own launch notes show how uneven a first week can be. Fanatics opened as a soft launch with casino games only and sports betting held back to 2027, DAZN Bet went live on the web with its app still to come, and PowerPlay reached Alberta with a sportsbook and no casino. Of the 35 sites on this page, 11 pair the casino with sports betting and 24 are casino-first.

A new site also has no track record yet, so a few checks before the first deposit matter more than usual. Start with the address: copycat sites borrow the names of real casinos, and a brand that has just launched is an easy target because few players know its address yet. Each card above shows it exactly as it appears on the official list. Then expect the identity check early. Money cannot leave a new account before it is verified, and some sites ask at sign-up. Knowing the ID check every new account goes through and having your documents ready saves days on a first withdrawal.

Then read the payout terms rather than the banner. A site sold as an instant withdrawal casino may still hold a first request for several days, and only its withdrawal page and terms say what really applies.

Last, set your limits. Deposit caps and breaks are built into every licensed site, new or not, and setting them before your first session is easier than after a bad one.

Registered in Alberta but not open yet

Six more casino brands hold an AGLC registration but were not on the Alberta register on November 3, 2026. None takes bets from Albertans yet, so they carry no date and no button.

A brand moves into the Alberta tab the week its address appears on the register.

Latest casino launches and what comes next

Alberta is where most new names will come from in the coming months. Dan Keene, who heads Alberta iGaming Corporation, told Canadian Gaming Business in October that another 10 to 15 sites could launch before the end of 2026. Ontario moves more slowly: its market has been open since 2022, and arrivals there now roughly match departures.

This list of new online casinos follows both registers every week. Each card keeps the date its site went live, and a site that later drops off a list moves to the departures. For the wider picture of where Canadian online casinos are legal and who regulates them, start from the province overview.

Questions about brand-new casinos

Sources · 30 official lists, releases and trade reports, read November 3, 2026

Official lists and regulators

• iGaming Ontario, regulated market directoryigamingontario.ca
• Alberta iGaming Corporation, registered iGaming sitesabigaming.ca
• Alberta iGaming Corporation, market launch, July 13, 2026abigaming.ca
• Alberta iGaming Corporation, October 23, 2026 updateabigaming.ca
• Covers, approved Alberta operators as the grace period closedcovers.com
• Yogonet, Alberta reaches 50 sites, October 19, 2026yogonet.com

Ontario launches and exits

• Fanatics Casino launches in Ontariocanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Soft2Bet launches Betinia in Ontariocanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Hard Rock Bet, Ontario launch releasehardrock.bet
• GiG, Miki launch in Ontarionews.cision.com
• Covers, DAZN Bet launches in Ontariocovers.com
• Ontario market results for May 2026 (Hollywood Casino, Rivalry)canadiangamingbusiness.com
• BetNova launches in Ontariocanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Casumo withdraws from Ontariocanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Conquestador pulls out of Ontariocanadiangamingbusiness.com
• PokerStars relaunches in Ontario as part of FanDuelcanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Betsson buys Casino Days, Betsafe’s exitcanadiangamingbusiness.com

Alberta launches and the pipeline

• Covers, PartyCasino and Sports Interaction go livecovers.com
• Bally’s launches Bally Bet and Monopoly Casinocanadiangamingbusiness.com
• PURE Casino, Vegas Club and Casino Timecanadiangamingbusiness.com
• GiG, Casino Time live in Albertagig.com
• Betway, Spin Casino and the late-September wavecanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Yogonet, PowerPlay sportsbook in Albertayogonet.com
• Covers, Stake’s Alberta licencecovers.com
• Covers, BET99 launches in Albertacovers.com
• iGaming Business, PlayBetNova.ca in Albertaigamingbusiness.com
• Registered brands yet to launchcanadiangamingbusiness.com
• Covers, Alberta after one monthcovers.com
• PointsBet, results presentation, October 2026ASX filing, weblink.com.au
• GiG, River Cree’s Alberta plansgig.com

Affiliate and ranking sites were used to spot names only, never as proof of a date.

Written and checked by

RileyCasiloon editor

Every Casiloon guide and review carries the pen name Riley. Here the job was to read both official lists line by line, trace each new name to the operator’s announcement or the trade press, and drop any date nobody could prove. Know of a launch we have missed? Write in and it goes through the same check.